Yes — with 7.7 GB to spare
Ministral 3 8B at Q4_K_M fits your GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 35 tokens per second. Past 66K the KV cache pushes it over — quantise the cache to q8_0, or step down a quantisation, to go longer.
Fully on GPU
8K context
Q4_K_M · 5.0 GB
Apache 2.0
Released Dec 2025
Vision
Mistral's 8B with images in. Plain GQA, so budget more KV cache than Qwen3.5 9B at the same context.
The VRAM budget
weights 5.0 GB
Weights 5.0 GB
KV cache @ 8K 1.06 GB
Runtime overhead 0.6 GB
Free 7.7 GB of 14.4 GB
Quantisation ladder
| Quant | Weights | Total @ 8K | Max context | Tok/s | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F16 | 16.6 GB | 18.3 GB | — | ~5.6 | Reference | 3.9 GB over |
| Q8_0 | 8.8 GB | 10.5 GB | 37K | 20 | −0.1% ppl | Long context |
| Q6_K | 6.8 GB | 8.5 GB | 52K | 26 | −0.4% ppl | Long context |
| Q5_K_M | 5.9 GB | 7.6 GB | 59K | 30 | −0.8% ppl | Long context |
| Q4_K_M | 5.0 GB | 6.7 GB | 66K | 35 | −1.9% ppl | Recommended |
| Q3_K_M | 4.1 GB | 5.7 GB | 73K | 43 | −5.4% ppl | Long context |
| Q2_K | 3.5 GB | 5.1 GB | 77K | 50 | −15% ppl | Long context |
Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it.
How to run it
$ ollama pull ministral-3:8b $ OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=8192 \ ollama run ministral-3:8b
The default. One binary, a model registry, an OpenAI-compatible port. More on Ollama.
01Download is 5.0 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02Close anything else holding VRAM. A browser with hardware acceleration can sit on 1–2 GB.
03There is room to go to 66K context on this card.